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Joey Plaster

Last June, a small group of costumed 20-something activists from Gay Shame  wielding saxophones, loudspeakers booming electronica, and bullhorns  held a "séance" on Polk Street to "summon the ghosts of Polk Street's past."

They performed in front of the recently constructed First Congregational Church  what they call "ground zero" for Polk Street gentrification  built over the remains of what they characterize as a gay hustler bar pushed out of the area by Lower Polk Neighbors (LPN), an organization no Read more »